The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!

It feels like a totally different MTV now.Now they have all their own original series, and people are talking about going back to music now? It's all original programming.

We should learn to think with our fingers.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.